Jerry Krause EWU Hall of Fame Bio

National Collegiate Basketball HOF Press Release

Former Eastern Washington University head men's basketball coach, Jerry Krause, will be inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2022, as announced this morning (June 29).
 
Krause is one of nine inductees in the 2022 class, who will be enshrined on Nov. 20 in Kansas City as part of National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Weekend, which also features the annual Hall of Fame Classic tournament.
 
Krause spent 17 seasons as the head coach at Eastern Washington from 1967-85, winning 262 games and overseeing EWU's transition from NAIA, to NCAA Division II and ultimately to Division I. His best season at Eastern Washington was a 25-4 finish in 1976-77 where the Eagles were one win shy of a berth in the NAIA tournament, but Krause's impact on the game of basketball reaches far beyond coaching.
 
He was inducted into Eastern Washington's Hall of Fame in 2005. After his time at Eastern, he spent 20 years in operation roles at Gonzaga University and he has coached and taught basketball at all levels for over 40 years. As stated in his Hall of Fame bio, the source of his greatest pride was as an educator as 81 percent of his players received their bachelor's degrees.
 
In 2003 he received a "Guardians of the Game for Advocacy Award" from the National Association of Basketball Coaches for his research in developing a standardized rim testing program. He was selected to the NAIA Hall of Fame in 2000, and the same year was inducted into the National Association for Sport and Physical Education Hall of Fame. He was chair of the National Association of Basketball Coaches research committee, which he served on for more than 30 years. He was formerly a long-standing member of the NCAA Rules Committee, served on the NABC Board of Directors and was on the selection committee for the National Basketball Hall of Fame.
 
Krause helped write a curriculum called "Be Like Coach" which was modeled after longtime college coach and Krause's mentor, John Wooden. The curriculum helped teach coaches how to coach while simultaneously teaching youth the game of basketball.
 
He has also authored 13 books, including a compilation of articles by the nation's top college coaches published as part of the 100th anniversary of basketball. During a sabbatical in the 1982-83 season, Krause completed two books while serving as an assistant for Ralph Miller at Oregon State University. In summer 2005, Krause completed "Lessons from the Legends," a capstone trio of books on Naismith Hall of Fame coaches. The book "Basketball Skills and Drills," originally published as "Better Basketball Basics" in 1983, is considered to be the most widely-used basketball fundamentals book in the world.
 
He has also produced 31 instructional videos, six DVD's, two CD's and serves as a consultant to many athletic organizations. Most of his works are available at the website: http://coachjerrykrause.com.
 
Krause spent nearly 30 years at EWU as a faculty member, then worked at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York. Krause received his bachelor's degree from Wayne State University in 1959, and both his master's degree (1965) and doctorate (1967) from the University of Northern Colorado. In 2001 he was honored by UNC with an Alumni Achievement Award for Contribution to Sport, an honor given to alumni who have excelled in mentoring or role modeling while working with students in sport.

Joining Krause in this year's class are players Richard Hamilton (Connecticut), Larry Miller (North Carolina) and the late Jimmy Walker (Providence). Coaches include John Beilein and Lon Kruger. They are joined by championship-winning coaches Jim Calhoun and Roy Williams, who will be formally honored in the Class of 2022 after initially being recognized as part of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame's Founding Class in 2006.

Details on tickets for the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2022 Induction Celebration will be announced soon. For more information on the event, visit www.halloffameweekend.com.